China’s Innovation-Driven Development Strategy: 2015-Present

Click here to read Chapter 4 of Barry Naughton’s The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy: 1978 To 2020.
This essay by IGCC affiliate Barry Naughton describes the way current Chinese industrial policy has changed in response to the perception of accelerating technological change. Sector-specific industrial policies have now been grouped together under the rubric of the Innovation-Driven Development Strategy (IDDS).
This essay appears as a chapter in The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy: 1978 To 2020 (2021, UNAM).
Barry Naughton co-leads IGCC research on China’s Science, Technology, Innovation, and Industrial Policies, and is So Kwanlok Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego.